Category: Homilies

An “Examin” is just a general examination of our conscience.  A  “Particular Examin” is picking one of our faults with the idea of identifying and cultivating its corresponding virtue (e.g. our telling the truth when we might typically tell a lie).  Fr Paul explains that St Ignatius developed the practice of a “particular examin” three times a day – morning, after lunch, and after dinner – as a path to a better life. Today Fr Paul offers us the opportunity to make a morning “particular examin” – one where we might choose love over hate in its many forms as he slowly reads today’s gospel from Luke.

Today’s Readings

Knowledge inflates with pride, but love builds up.
1 COR 8:1B-7, 11-13

“Love your enemies. Let them bring out the best in you, not the worst.”
LK 6:27-38 (Message Bible)

 

Today’s gospel parable about sorting through a net full of fish to separate the good from the bad reminds Fr Greg how cluttered his own closet has become.  Jesus invites us to “clean the closets of our heart” today – keeping what’s good and letting go of what’s bad.

Today’s Readings

Like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand.
JER 18:1-6

“The Kingdom of heaven is like a net thrown into the sea, which collects fish of every kind. When it is full they haul it ashore and sit down to put what is good into buckets. What is bad they throw away.”
MT 13:47-53

Fr Peter declares today – the feast of St Alphonsus Liguori, founder of the Redemptorists – a “red letter day.”  Alphonsus responded the LORD’s call to serve the most abandoned – a service that, like Jeremiah’s in today’s first reading, became the joy and happiness of his heart. We, too, are called to the LORD’s service.  How will we respond?

Today’s Readings

When I found your words, I devoured them; they became my joy and the happiness of my heart.
JER 15:10, 16-21

“The Kingdom of heaven is like a treasure buried in a field, which a person finds … and out of joy goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.
MT 13:44-46